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(n)
French
chemist
(
born
in
Poland
)
who
won
two
Nobel
Prizes
;
one
(
with
her
husband
and
Henri
Becquerel
)
for
research
on
radioactivity
and
another
for
her
discovery
of
radium
and
polonium
(
1867
-
1934
)
(n)
French
physicist
;
husband
of
Marie
Curie
(
1859
-
1906
)
(n)
a
unit
of
radioactivity
equal
to
the
amount
of
a
radioactive
isotope
that
decays
at
the
rate
of
37
,
000
,
000
,
000
disintegrations
per
second
Curie Synonyms
Ci
Curie
Madame Curie
Marie Curie
Marya Sklodowska
Pierre Curie
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